CYMBALA'S EASTER STORY

Jim Cymbala preaches at a church in the slums of New York. He tells the following story:

 It was Easter Sunday and I was so tired at the end of the day that I just went to the edge of the platform, pulled down my tie and sat down and draped my feet over the edge. It was a wonderful service with many people coming forward. The counselors were talking with these people.

As I was sitting there I looked up the middle aisle, and there in about the third row was a man who looked about fifty, disheveled, filthy. He looked up at me rather sheepishly, as if saying, “Could I talk to you?”

We have homeless people coming in all the time, asking for money or whatever. So as I sat there, I said to myself, though I am ashamed of it, “What a way to end a Sunday. I’ve had such a good time, preaching and ministering, and here’s a fellow probably wanting some money for more wine.”

He walked up. When he got within about five feet of me, I smelled a horrible smell like I’d never smelled in my life. It was so awful that when he got close, I would inhale by looking away, and then I’d talk to him, and then look away to inhale, because I couldn’t inhale facing him. I asked him, “What’s your name?”

“David.”

“How long have you been on the street?”

“Six years.”

“How old are you?”

“Thirty-two.” He looked fifty--hair matted; front teeth missing; wino; eyes slightly glazed.

“Where did you sleep last night, David?”

“Abandoned truck.”

I keep in my back pocket a money clip that also holds some credit cards. I fumbled to pick one out thinking; I’ll give him some money. I won’t even get a volunteer. They are all busy talking with others. Usually we don’t give money to people. We take them to get something to eat.

I took the money out. David pushed his finger in front of me. He said, “I don’t want your money. I want this Jesus, the One you were talking about, because I’m not going to make it. I’m going to die on the street.”

I completely forgot about David, and I started to weep for myself. I was going to give a couple of dollars to someone God had sent to me. See how easy it is? I could make the excuse I was tired. 

There is no excuse. I was not seeing him the way God sees him. I was not feeling what God feels.

But oh, did that change! David just stood there. He didn’t know what was happening. I pleaded with God, “God, forgive me! Forgive me! Please forgive me. I am so sorry to represent You this way. I’m so sorry. Here I am with my message and my points, and You send somebody and I am not ready for it. Oh, God!”

Something came over me. Suddenly I started to weep deeper, and David began to weep. He fell against my chest as I was sitting there. He fell against my white shirt and tie, and I put my arms around him, and there we wept on each other. The smell of His person became a beautiful aroma. Here is what I thought the Lord made real to me: If you don’t love this smell, I can’t use you, because this is why I called you where you are. This is what you are about. You are about this smell.

Christ changed David’s life. He started memorizing portions of Scripture that were incredible. We got him a place to live. We hired him in the church to do maintenance, and we got his teeth fixed. He was a handsome man when he came out of the hospital. They detoxed him in 6 days. He spent that Thanksgiving at my house. He also spent Christmas at my house. When we were exchanging presents, he pulled out a little thing and he said, “This is for you.” It was a little white hanky. It was the only thing he could afford.

A year later David got up and talked about his conversion to Christ. The minute he took the mic and began to speak, I said, “The man is a preacher.” This past Easter we ordained David. He is an associate minister of a church over in New Jersey. And I was so close to saying, “Here, take this; I’m a busy preacher.”

We can get so full of ourselves.

Good Friday Thought 2018

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Jesus said that no one took his life from him, but that he laid it down of his own will. He laid it down for the sins of man so that we could be forgiven and brought into a right relationship with God forever. 

The death we deserve for our sinful rebellion against God is the penalty Jesus willingly took in our place. The words of the prophet Isaiah ring with powerful truth: "By his wounds, we are healed."

In his book "Evidence that demands a Verdict," Josh McDowell describes what Jesus went through on our behalf. It started with "a sleepless night with no food. Then Jesus endured the mockery of two trials; He was slapped, mocked, spat upon, and ridiculed with a robe, a scepter, and a crown of thorns. He had his back lacerated with the cruel Roman "cat-o-nine tails" whip which caused excessive tearing of the flesh, bleeding, cramps and dizziness; followed by tetanus (many prisoners did not even live through this lashing!)

When He arrived at Golgotha's Hill, Jesus suffered the shame of the cross (a weapon of punishment reserved only for the cruelest of criminals). 

Messiah Jesus was publicly humiliated and shamed. He was stripped naked; He suffered the long horror of anticipated death; the mortification of untended wounds; the unnatural position of His body on the cross; lacerated veins and arteries; crushed tendons throbbing with incessant anguish and torment; gradual gangrene; arteries around the head and stomach becoming swollen and oppressed with surcharge blood; and with all that - add a burning and raging thirst!"

My Soul! WHY did Jesus DO that? Why did He allow Himself to SUFFER so? WHY DID HE DIE? Because He loves you so much, that's why?

Because He loves me so much, that's why! Every time I think of His sacrifice on my behalf, I'm AMAZED! I stand in AWE of His GREAT REDEEMING LOVE!

I'm reminded of a poster that reads "I asked Jesus - How much do You love me? And He stretched out His arms - and died!" WOW! Isn't that POWERFUL, isn't that AWESOME?!

Article I submitted for publication in the Sturgis Journal - Sturgis Mi.

Time for a little humor

Billy Graham was returning home after a speaking engagement.

When his plane arrived at the airport, there was a long black limousine to transport him.

Just as he was about to get in the back of the limo, he stopped. He whispered to the driver who was holding the door open for him. “You know” he said, “I am 87 years old and I have never driven a limousine. Would you mind if I drove it for a while?”

The driver said, “No problem. Have at it.”

Billy got into the driver’s seat and they headed out to the interstate.

Lurking behind an exit ramp a short distance from the airport, sat a rookie State Trooper operating his first speed trap. The long black limo went by him doing 70 in a 55 mph zone. The trooper pulled out in pursuit and easily caught the limo. He pulled up behind, and got out of his North Carolina State patrol car.

The young trooper walked up to the driver’s door. When the window was rolled down he was very surprised to see who was driving.

Trying desperately to maintain his professional attitude, he immediately excused himself and walked back to his car and called his supervisor.

He told the supervisor, “I know we are supposed to enforce the law but I also know that important people are given certain courtesies. I need to know what I should do because I have stopped a very important person.”

The supervisor asked, “Is it the governor?”

The young trooper said, “No, he’s more important than that.”

The supervisor said, “Oh, so it’s the President.”

The young trooper said, “No, he’s even more important than that.”

The supervisor finally asked, “Well then, who is it?”

The young trooper said, “I think it’s Jesus because he’s got Billy Graham for a chauffeur!”

Praying for your pastor

Dennis Quaid Talks About His Inspirational New Film, ‘I Can Only Imagine...

“I Can Only Imagine” was an inspirational Christian song about MercyMe singer Bart Millard’s relationship with his father. Now it has become a new film in which Dennis Quaid plays the father. “It’s not a Hollywood redemption story,” the actor tells Kathie Lee and Hoda. 

“I won't be attending Church anymore.”

A man went to the Pastor of his church and said, “I won't be attending Church anymore.”

Pastor said, “May I ask why?”

He said, “I see people on their cell phones texting and typing during the service, some are gossiping, some just aren’t living right, some are sleeping, some are staring at me, they are all just hypocrites.”

The Pastor was silent. Then he said, “Can I ask you to do something for me before you make your final decision?”

He said, “Sure, what's that?”

He said, “Take a glass of water and walk around the church two times and don't let any water fall out of the glass.”

He said, “Yes I can do that!” He went and got the glass of water and walked around the church two times. He came back and said proudly, “It's done.”

The pastor asked him these questions;

• ·       “Did you see anybody on their phone?
• ·       Did you see anybody gossiping?
• ·       Was anybody living wrong?
• ·       Did you see anyone sleeping?”

He said, “I didn't see anything because I was so focused on this glass, so the water wouldn't spill out”

He told him, “When you come to church, you should be just that focused on God, so that you don't fall. 

That’s why Jesus said, ‘Follow Me’, He did not say follow them.”

Don't let your relationship with God be determined by how others relate with God.  Let it be determined by how focused you are with God.
 

Determining the Will of God

George Muller cared for thousands of orphans in England during the latter half of 19th century. Hailed as one of the most remarkable men of faith of the past two centuries, his plan for determining the will of God as a helpful outline to follow when we're listening for God's voice in prayer.

1. I seek at the beginning to get my heart into such a state that it has no will of its own in regard to a given matter.

2. Having done this, I do not leave the result to feeling or simple impression. If I do so, I make myself liable to great delusion.

3. I seek the will of the Spirit through, or in connection with, the Word of God.

4. Next, I take into account providential circumstances. These often plainly indicate God's will in connection with His Word and Spirit.

5. I asked God in prayer to reveal His will to me aright.

6. Thus, through prayer to God, study of the Word, and reflection, I came to a deliberate judgement according to the best of my ability and knowledge.

Note the balance in George Mueller's steps. It's only at step 5 that he's ready to ask God directly (or "aright") for direction. At step 6, he has finally concluded what he believes he is hearing from God after several "checks and balances."                                                              ~ Dick Eastman

Friday Funny: Clueless In NC

One of my favorite speakers.... a Friday Funny for you to enjoy

God Knows Your Tomorrow

A recent devotional thought that I needed to hear.  God is faithful!

 " Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.”
                                                                            PSALM 139:4

What is God saying to you?

“In all things God works for the good of those who love him.”                                                                          Romans  8:28 NIV

Novelist A. J. Cronin had been practicing as a physician for almost ten years when he developed a gastric ulcer that required complete rest. So he went to a farm in the Scottish Highlands to recuperate. 

He says, “The first few days of leisure were pleasant enough, but soon the enforced idleness of Fyne Farm became insufferable…I’d often, in the back of my mind, nursed the vague illusion that I might write. I had actually thought out the theme of a novel—the tragic record of a man’s egotism and bitter pride…Upstairs in my cold, clean bedroom was a scrubbed deal table and a very hard chair. Next morning I found myself in this chair facing a new exercise book open on the table, slowly becoming aware that, short of Latin prescriptions, I’d never composed a significant phrase in my entire life. It was a discouraging thought, as I picked up my pen. Never mind, I began.” 

Even though Cronin struggled to write five hundred words a day and ended up throwing his first draft on the farm’s trash heap, he finished Hatter’s Castle. The book was dramatized, translated into twenty-two languages, and sold some five million copies. The world had lost a physician, but gained a novelist. 

When God gives you a dream, sometimes the circumstances required to fulfill it won’t be to your liking. In Joseph’s case it involved betrayal and false imprisonment. But that’s what it took to get him to the throne of Egypt. 

So ask God today, “What are You saying, or trying to show me, in the middle of this situation?”

Some things can only be experienced...

My Devotional Thought for today! 

HEBREWS 13:6
“ ⁶ So we say with confidence,
‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid.
What can mere mortals do to me?’

A Scientist Discovers God

with Mark Middelberg

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?                                                  Isaiah 40:12

Allan Rex Sandage, the greatest observational cosmologist in the world—who deciphered the secrets of the stars, plumbed the mysteries of quasars, revealed the age of globular clusters, pinpointed the distances of remote galaxies, and quantified the universe’s expansion through his work at the Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories—prepared to step onto the conference platform.

Few scientists were as widely respected as this one-time protégé of legendary astronomer Edwin Hubble. Sandage had been showered with prestigious honors from the American Astronomical Society, the Swiss Physical Society, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Swedish Academy of Sciences, receiving astronomy’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The New York Times dubbed him the “grand old man of cosmology.”

As he approached the stage at this conference on science and religion, there was little doubt where he would sit. The discussion would be about the origin of the universe, and the panel would be divided among those scientists who believed in God and those who didn’t, with each faction sitting on its own side of the stage.

Many of the attenders probably knew the ethnically Jewish Sandage had been a virtual atheist even as a child. Others undoubtedly believed that a scientist of his stature must surely be skeptical about God. As Newsweek put it, “The more deeply scientists see into the secrets of the universe, you’d expect, the more God would fade away from their hearts and minds.” So Sandage’s seat among the doubters seemed a given.

Then the unexpected happened. Sandage set the room abuzz by turning and taking a chair among the theists. Even more dazzling, in the context of a talk about the big bang and its philosophical implications, he disclosed publicly that he had become a Christian at age fifty.

The big bang, he told the rapt audience, was a supernatural event that cannot be explained within the realm of physics as we know it. Science has taken us to the first event, but it can’t take us back to the first cause. The sudden emergence of matter, space, time, and energy pointed to the need for some kind of transcendence.

“It is my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science,” he later told a reporter. “It was only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.”

For me, the road to atheism was paved by science, but, ironically, so was my later journey to God. Good information, I am convinced, points us to a good God.

SEVEN POTENTIALLY DEADLY CHURCH SICKNESSES

For the past two years, I have been monitoring the comments and challenges mentioned by church leaders. I am attempting to answer the question: What is hindering many of our churches from achieving health and vitality?

As I have categorized the problems and challenges the church leaders shared, I have seen seven distinct categories of hindrances. 

Since I am primarily concerned about church health, I call these hindrances “church sicknesses.”

The good news is that none of these sicknesses have to become terminal. They can be reversed from sickness to health. The bad news is that, without intervention, each illness can potentially lead to the decline and death of the church. Let’s look at all seven sicknesses:

Attitudinal Angst: a church illness where church members are most focused on getting their own desires and preferences met, rather than being a serving member of the body of Christ. It is also called Church Country Club Membership.

Slippage Syndrome: the church illness where a church stops focusing on its primary purposes. Evangelism slippage is the most common.

Detail Distraction: a church illness where there is too much focus on minor issues to the detriment of major issues. For example, routine meetings can become more important than compelling missions.

Institutional Idolatry: a church illness where the members have an unbiblical devotion to inconsequential matters such as facilities, order of worship, or styles of worship.

Activity Acclimation: a church illness where the members see busyness to be the same as commitment and/or godliness. The church calendar becomes the guiding document for the congregation.

Purposeless Prayer: the church illness where corporate prayer is non-existent or steeped in non-useful tradition. Such prayers can be perfunctory, showy, or gossipy.

Detrimental Defensiveness: a church illness where the members and leadership are fearful to move forward because of memories of past conflicts and the presence of troublemakers and bullies.

Source: Thom Rainer 

Passover and the End Times

“All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.”   

                      ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

Biblical scholars are well aware of the fact that Jesus celebrated the Passover and that his celebration of this Mosaic festival must shape our understanding of the Lord’s Supper. But while these scholars stress the salvific significance of Passover, they virtually ignore its important eschatological background. 

(For the uninitiated, eschatology usually refers to what might happen towards the end of history). So, what does Passover have to do with eschatology in Matthew 26:26-29?

Passover evokes the story of the Exodus and God’s delivery of the Jewish people from slavery. Passover also evokes the story of Mt. Sinai and the ratification of the Mosaic covenant that formally established Israel as a nation.  Jesus’ declaration that, “this is my blood of the covenant” clearly echoes the words of Exodus 24:8: “This is the blood of the covenant.”

But the Passover celebration of Jesus’ day was more than just a memorial of Israel’s past redemption; it was also a celebration of Israel’s future restoration. The celebration of Passover evoked the theme of the eschatological New Exodus.  Biblical passages like Isaiah 11:15-16 and Ezekiel 20:33-38 reveal that Israel’s prophets appropriated the language of the exodus to describe Israel’s return from exile and the inauguration of the messianic era.

Similarly, in the rabbinic material, the Exodus is understood as a paradigm of Israel’s future redemption. Many of these texts express the belief that the Messiah would appear during the night of the Passover.  For example, in Mekhitla Exodus 12:42, we read, “In that night were they redeemed and in that night will they be redeemed in the future.”

According to the New Testament, Jesus does inaugurate the New Covenant of Jeremiah 31, which brings about the forgiveness of sin.  It is this event that sets in motion God’s plan to restore Israel! The Last Supper weaves together the Passover, the New Exodus, and the New Covenant to reveal God’s amazing plan to redeem his chosen people and to bring great blessing to the world-at-large.

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How old is old?

I have discovered that seeking employment at age 63 is much more difficult than seeking employment when I was 32. But one truth remains, God is faithful. I am trusting God for my future, my calling, my provisions of life. 

I heard recently that a church was seeking a new pastor.  As the resumes were being reviewed and it was growing time to begin the interviews. A resume was presented of a seasoned pastor with multiple ministries that reflect a mighty work of God. This seasoned pastor had recently celebrated his 52nd birthday. A church board member said to the board, "Why should we consider this resume? Do we want a man who's tank is almost empty instead of seeking a young, vibrant man?"

Maybe he should read this article:

Teach Us to Pray

John Piper rehearses some of the most profound and familiar words ever spoken. We hope these four minutes, with stunning aerial footage, will help inspire you to new heights in the life of prayer.

Boxing Champ Manny Pacquiao | What is a Real Christian?

In this SLICE, Matt Crouch interviews Manny Pacquiao as the boxing champion shares his take on people claiming to be Christian, but who are really not. Why? Because the fruit of their life doesn't reflect Christ and they are not walking in obedience to Him. Recorded January 2015.

The Hardest Person to Forgive

ROMANS 8:1

“¹ Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,”

When GOD gives a vision

Don’t seek opportunity. Seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek God. 

Prayer is one way we check our motives! If you want something for the wrong reason, God won’t give it to you.

 It’s prayer that purifies our motives until all we want is God’s glory!

Five Steps for Handling Frustration

“You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you” (Isaiah 26:3 NIV).

Here are five simple steps for dealing with frustrations in your life.

Ask yourself, “Did I cause it?” The Bible says, “A man reaps what he sows” (Galatians 6:7 NIV). We are often frustrated by things in life because we bring them on ourselves.

Ask yourself, “What can I learn from it?” Romans 8:28 says, “In all things God works for the good of those who love him” (NIV). There are many bad things in the world, but all things work together. God can even take the negative and turn it into a positive if we let him. Use irritation as an opportunity to become more like Christ.

Thank God in the situation. In 1 Thessalonians 5:18 we read, “Give thanks in all circumstances” (NIV). You don’t have to be thankful for a bad situation, but you can be thankful in a bad situation. Frustration may be a blessing in disguise.

Turn the frustration into a funny, humorous event. The Bible says, “A cheerful heart is good medicine” (Proverbs 17:22 NIV). A sense of humor is God’s antidote for anger and frustration.

Ask God to fill you with his love. Why? Because 1 Corinthians 13:5 says, “[Love] is not easily angered” (NIV). Love is self-giving, not self-serving. We get irritated because we think everyone and everything has to revolve around us. Love concentrates on the other person.

We get so preoccupied with our own things that we forget that people are the priority in life. Jesus faced constant frustrations, too, but he always made time for people.

This devotional is based on the current Daily Hope radio series at pastorrick.com. 

This devotional © 2018 by Rick Warren. All rights reserved. Used by permission. 

5 Ways to Relax When You’re Overworked

As ministry leaders, we approach each day with passion because we’re working for God, and our mission is literally to see the world saved. But the fact is, there will always be more work to do in ministry, and that’s why we must deliberately take time away from work.

God did it, resting one day after working six, so why should we think the world will fall apart if we aren’t on the job 24/7?

Here are five steps you can take toward recovery from ministry workaholism.

R – Readjust Your Values

The costs of workaholism are enormous: divorce, alcohol abuse, heart attacks and other illnesses, fragmented and fractured relationships, unhappiness, and loneliness.

Ask yourself these questions:

Why am I working so hard? Do a motive check. What drives you to do this? Are you trying to prove something?

Is the payoff worth it? Why do you keep fighting to get to the next level? What can you realistically expect? Is it worth sacrificing your life for it?

Your life is too important to waste on second-class causes. Readjust your values.

Ecclesiastes 5:15 says, “In spite of all our work there is nothing we can take with us” (GNT). God doesn’t expect you to save the world single-handedly, and believe me, your kids need you, too.

E – Enjoy Your Rewards

Ecclesiastes 3:13 says, “All of us should eat and drink and enjoy what we’ve worked for. It is God’s gift”(GNT).

Most of us never slow down long enough to enjoy what we’ve got, but it’s a mistake to postpone enjoyment. “One of these days I’m really going to start enjoying life. Just after I finish this next project…”

Listen: It’s not true. If you don’t enjoy life right now, then when you do have free time on your hands, you’re not going to know how to enjoy it.

Learn to enjoy life right now, in the moment, because you’re not guaranteed tomorrow.

L – Limit Your Labor

Figure out, realistically, how many hours you should work and then hold yourself to that schedule. Don’t wear yourself out in your work.

Exodus 20:9-10 says, “You have six days in which to do your work, but the seventh day is to be a day of rest dedicated to me” (GNT). Every seventh day you take a day off. Pastor, this is not a suggestion; this is a commandment!

God didn’t create you so you could constantly work. Your best requires rest.

Limit your labor by scheduling three things in your life:

Rest

Recreation

Relationships

If you’re married, there’s a fourth one: romance.

These are part of God’s plan for your life. If you don’t schedule these, you’ll never find time for them.

A – Anticipate God’s Care

Matthew 6:31-32 says, “So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them” (NIV).

A lot of our workaholism is rooted in worry. You have to put your security in something that can’t be taken from you. Trust that God knows your needs and can provide for you.

A Christian man, after struggling for years, finally said, “God, I’m going to give you my business. You’re the CEO now. You’re in charge of my career—the profits, payoffs, promotions. It’s your business now and you run it.”

The next day his business warehouse burned to the ground. He was seen standing outside the warehouse with a giant smile on his face. He said, “Last night I gave my business to God. If he wants to burn it down, it’s his business.”

He had a new perspective: God will handle it! As quickly as he burned the thing down, he can raise it up again. That’s called trust.

X – Exchange Your Pressure for God’s Peace

Jesus said in Matthew 11:28, 30, “Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying heavy loads, and I will give you rest…the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is light” (GNT).

Jesus came to give you a lifestyle that is easy and light. If you’re carrying a load that is heavy and overbearing, then it’s not from God.

Perhaps you have been in this lifestyle so long, you don’t know any other way. You’re dead tired, but you can’t seem to stop. God has a word for you: “Trust me. I’ll take care of you. Exchange your pressure for my peace.”

What do you want written on your tombstone? What are you living for? If you’re living for your work, you’re selling yourself short. Work is an important part of God’s plan for your life. But your work will never satisfy the deepest needs in your life. It wasn’t meant to—only Jesus Christ can do that.

Source: PASTOR RICK WARREN

Rick Warren is the founding pastor of Saddleback Church, one of America's largest and most influential churches. He is the author of the New York Timesbestseller The Purpose Driven Life. His book, The Purpose Driven Church, was named one of the 100 Christian books that changed the 20th century. Pastor Rick started The PEACE Plan to show the local church how God works through ordinary people to address the five global giants of spiritual emptiness, self-serving leadership, poverty, disease, and illiteracy. You can listen to Daily Hope, Pastor Rick’s daily 25-minute audio teaching, or sign up for his free daily devotionals at PastorRick.com. He is also the founder of Pastors.com, a global online community created to encourage pastors.

Friday Funny: Presenting a new vision to the church board.

Read this on Facebook yesterday. It was posted from The Pastor's Helper.

The pastor of a church decides that God is calling the church to a new vision of what it is to be and do. So at the board meeting, he presents the new vision with as much energy, conviction and passion as he can muster. When he had finished and sat down, the board chairman called for a vote. All 12 members voted against the new vision, with only the pastor voting for it.

"Well, pastor, it looks like you will have to think again," says the chairman. "Would you like to close the meeting in prayer?"

So the pastor stands up, raises his hand to heaven, and prays, "LOOOOOOORD!...will you not show these people that this is not MY vision but it is YOUR vision!"

At that moment, the clouds darken, the thunder rolls, and a streak of lightning bursts through the window and strikes in two the table at which they are sitting, throwing the pastor and all the board members to the ground.

After a moment's silence, as they all get up and dust themselves off, the chairman of the board speaks again.

"Well, that's twelve votes to two then."

Roy Williams on How to Rip a Jacket

The Tar Heel head coach discussed how and why he tried to tear apart his sports jacket during UNC's win over Syracuse in the ACC Tournament.

North Carolina beat Syracuse by 19 Wednesday night to advance to the ACC tournament quarterfinals - but despite the comfortable win, Tar Heels coach Roy Williams lost it on the sideline late in the second half.

After Theo Pinson attempted and missed a shot following an offensive rebound instead of kicking the ball out and running the clock, Williams tried to tear his jacket in half.